Wonders, Marvels, and Monsters in Early Modern CulturePeter G. Platt University of Delaware Press, 1999 - 341 sider The essays in this collection reveal a variety of discursive practices of the marvelous: art theory, natural history, travel literature, religious polemics, literary flyting, proto-medical narratives, wonder books, political theory, personal essays, drama, theology, jermiad verse, philosophy, and "metaphysical" poetry. They also establish the variety of uses to which the marvelous could be summoned. One fundamental fissure seems to run throughout the period's depiction of the wonderful that paradoxically helps unify our understanding of the concept: there existed a marvelous that ultimately had to be contained and a marvelous that inevitably liberated--often within the same text. If the urge to control the marvelous is great--if the supernatural is always threatened with naturalization--it is the power of the marvelous that necessitates such a response. For the marvelous and the monstrous are almost always in danger of eluding mastery and classification. Yet it is this very intractability that can force of facilitate a recharting--of the map of artistic possibility, of the body, of the known world, of human potential. In the spirit of this figure that ever seeks to unsettle, this volume continues the ongoing reconfiguration of our view of wonder, the marvelous, and the monstrous in the early modern period. --From publisher's description. |
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Side 15
... experience . In this vision , wonder is ongoing and its own end ; what diminishes is not wonder but the desire — indeed , the capacity — to bring reason to bear upon it . This notion of the marvelous as a challenge to , rather than ...
... experience . In this vision , wonder is ongoing and its own end ; what diminishes is not wonder but the desire — indeed , the capacity — to bring reason to bear upon it . This notion of the marvelous as a challenge to , rather than ...
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... experience of grace , " miracles developed into " compelling evi- dence . " By looking at the changing ways in which the marvelous was in- voked to explain and demarcate the natural world , Daston complicates our views of what she calls ...
... experience of grace , " miracles developed into " compelling evi- dence . " By looking at the changing ways in which the marvelous was in- voked to explain and demarcate the natural world , Daston complicates our views of what she calls ...
Side 18
... experience of wonder continually reminds us that our grasp of the world is incomplete . " The next section of this anthology looks at the role the marvelous and monstrous played in early modern descriptions and uses of the human body ...
... experience of wonder continually reminds us that our grasp of the world is incomplete . " The next section of this anthology looks at the role the marvelous and monstrous played in early modern descriptions and uses of the human body ...
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... experience meets and mingles with a native strain of grandiloquent gore - mongering . " Bishop claims that the play evinces discomfort towards the wonderful " not only as a staging strategy but as a habit and posture of human experience ...
... experience meets and mingles with a native strain of grandiloquent gore - mongering . " Bishop claims that the play evinces discomfort towards the wonderful " not only as a staging strategy but as a habit and posture of human experience ...
Side 23
... Experience , " Dialogue 11 ( 1972 ) : 224-40 . 9. See James V. Mirollo , The Poet of the Marvelous : Giambattista Marino ( New York : Columbia University Press , 1963 ) . 10. For a variety of approaches to the body in the Renaissance ...
... Experience , " Dialogue 11 ( 1972 ) : 224-40 . 9. See James V. Mirollo , The Poet of the Marvelous : Giambattista Marino ( New York : Columbia University Press , 1963 ) . 10. For a variety of approaches to the body in the Renaissance ...
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On Wonder Imitation and Mechanism | 45 |
Marvelous Facts and Miraculous Evidence in Early Modern | 76 |
Introduction to Marvelous Possessions | 105 |
Rabelaisian NonWonders and Renaissance Polemics | 133 |
Early Modern Scientific Accounts | 145 |
John Bulwer and | 187 |
The Limits | 205 |
Macbeth and the Marvelous | 229 |
The Politics of Jeremiad | 251 |
Beyond the Renaissance Reconfiguring | 269 |
Wit the Sublime and the Rise | 294 |
List of Contributors | 328 |
Who Says Miracles Are Past? Some Jacobean Marvels | 164 |
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Side 237 - The Prince of Cumberland!—That is a step On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black and deep desires; The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. [Exit. (1.4.48-53)
Side 230 - Siward. What wood is this before us? Menteith. The wood of Birnam. Malcolm. Let every soldier hew him down a bough. And bear't before him: thereby shall we shadow The numbers of our host, and make discovery Err in report of us. Soldier. It shall be done.
Side 313 - lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy.
Side 275 - I think I envy liberty as little as they do, to any other nation. But I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of the object, as it stands stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction
Side 276 - by the spirit of philosophic analogy. In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties
Side 310 - analytick," they "broke every image into fragments, and could no more represent by their slender conceits and laboured particularities, the prospects of nature or the scenes of life, than he who dissects a sun-beam with a prism can exhibit the wide effulgence of a summer noon
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